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“Try to be a god and see if you’ve got enough divinity within yourself to save yourself from the mess that you’ll make just by thinking about doing it, much less the mess you’ll make if you actually attempt it.”
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“How many times do we have to repeat a failed strategy before it dawns on us that it’s a failed strategy? The answer, I think, depends on the size of our ego and the depth of our arrogance.”
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“The beauty of God is that He will always be there to pick us up after we’ve exhausted ourselves attempting to be Him.”
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“Our egos are utterly convinced that ‘quality of life’ is found in the ‘domineering of life.’ And a very simple way to effectively destroy the whole of your life is to live by this for the smallest part of your life.”
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“Undoubtedly, the loneliest person on the planet is that individual who has successfully lived out their lives making their lives all about their lives. And while that might seem rather sad to most of us, at least they’ll feel that they’re in good company.”
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“Greed is to pursue something knowing that we might acquire that which we pursue. Yet, a part of us that is greater than that which we pursue will die in the pursuit. And the insanity of greed is that it reckons that such a trade-off is worthwhile.”
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“Ethics, morals and values keep freedom from devolving into license. For license is greed unleashed. And we would be quite wise to remember that greed unleashed is certain to turn and kill the thing that unleashed it.”
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“People think that saving their pride is worth something. But it's not. Plenty of faces have been saved at the expense of murdered hearts. You need a heart to be alive; a face can't do that for you.”
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“Don't get so caught up in being right; you might lose out on the lessons and opportunities in the now”
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“One of the biggest abuses of intelligence is to believe that if you have enough of it you can reinvent the truth. Stupidity believes the same thing.”
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“It is in embracing an unwavering adherence to Biblical principles that we will find a sustainable argument for the conviction that ‘sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.’ And it is the irresistible nature of that argument that can lift us above the incessantly gnawing desire to make ourselves the only vocation.”
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“Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.”
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“If I demand that I be the captain of my own ship, I’ll probably be spending most of my time in a lifeboat. And if I then demand to be the captain of the lifeboat, I’ll probably be spending all of my time being the lunch of something that doesn’t care that I’m a captain.”
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“Recklessly feeding all of our passions is failing to recognize that our greatest passion should be to starve them.”
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“To arrogantly presume that we know something without having gone through the grueling trials within which we learn whatever it is that we declare to know is a sure sign that we don’t, and it is the greatest indicator that we won’t.”
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“The dance floor of your ego will always be empty regardless of how many little ‘gods’ you’ve got prancing around upon it.”
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“If the story of your life was all about you, at your death the person who would have found pleasure in reading it is in the same pine box that you are. And the ones who have no interest are the ones shoveling the dirt.”
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